Iravunk: Azerbaijan to incite more frontline tension as election time nears, warns analyst

With less than a month left until the snap presidential election in Azerbaijan, there are high chances of new escalations along the Line of Contact, a Yerevan-based political analyst said Thursday.

In comments to the paper, Sergey Shakaryan's warned of the likelihood of more aggressive military operations which he said may last “as long as President Ilham Aliyev pave his way to a fourth term in office”. “All I can say - comparing the current developments with the April 2016 events – is that the acts of provocation will vary in character. They will be more complicated and far more merciless,” he said, regretting to note that Armenia keeps turning a blind eye to the amassing Azerbaijani troops on the territory of Nakicevan.